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The National Library of Scotland, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh’s Remediating…
The wartime papers and drumhead wallet of an officer in the German Regiment of the Continental Army…
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Posters designed by Leslie Ragan for the New York Central Lines railroad come up for sale at Swann Galleries today at its Rare & Important Travel Posters auction.Ragan designed one of the most recognizable American train posters, an Art Deco image of The New 20th Century Limited, the Henry…
A framed collection of pens used by American presidents to sign historically significant legislation goes under the hammer Heritage Auctions' Americana & Political auction November 1-2.
Objects believed to have inspired Jane Austen’s writings and a full collection of her first editions are the centrepieces of a brand-new permanent exhibition at the writer museum Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire.
RR Auction’s monthly Fine Autographs and Artifacts Sale runs through October 16 with more than 800 lots of signed books, autograph letters, and historically significant documents from the 16th century to the present day. Highlights include:
The NYPL has acquired the archive of Oliver Sacks which showcases the life and career of the author and perhaps most important medical humanist of the 20th century.
The Bloomsbury group circle of writers, intellectuals, and artists is the focus of new collaboration between Sotheby's and Charleston, the creatives' rural retreat in Sussex.Sotheby’s will host Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston, a private selling and loan exhibition on view November…
Elizabeth Gaskell’s House is celebrating a decade since one of Manchester’s most important historic cultural venues was saved from dereliction with a new exhibition.Running until June 2025, The story of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House from dereliction to delight explores the building’s restoration and…
Going under the hammer later this month will be the first tranche of The Christine Farrell Complete DC Collection, an auction featuring nearly 500 comic books, including 1940’s Double Action Comics No. 2, of which only seven copies have survived.
The new exhibition of artists’ books at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) on Bainbridge Island, WA, focuses on the limitations and injustices associated with borders and identity documents.
Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia has received a $3.1m donation to endow a full-time curatorial chair for the School’s teaching collection and exhibitions program. It represents the largest single gift in Rare Book School’s 41-year history.
